> Also the fact that the drive is showing up as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda > means that you are not using the best driver for the hard drive. Go into the > bios and try either native mode to serial ATA or SATA AHCI enable. > You might need to rebuild the initrd from a rescue disk after you boot. >>native mode to serial ATA Did that. Now it shows up as sda again. I no longer get the errors either but I get this now. [root at server log]# hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Smartd also complains on boot up. Any ideas? Matt